Klarinet Archive - Posting 000350.txt from 1999/05

From: Christopher macIver <maciver@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Odd looking barrel --- any info?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 01:36:05 -0400

jim and joyce wrote:

> Mother's day dinner was at a large seafood place on the Washington DC
> waterfront. The restaraunt had a strolling group: Banjo, Tuba &
> Clarinet. From a distance, the barrel on the clarinet looked like a
> section of vacuum cleaner hose. When I got up close, you could see that
> the barrel was more of a narrow tube with disks spaced about a quarter
> inch apart on the outside. From perpendicular to the barrel, you could
> see that the inside tube was actually somewhat hourglass shaped. I
> assume that the whole thing was cast out of plastic. The player did not
> know the brand, but said that it acted as a silencer. He said that he
> got it initially because it was only 60 mm and many of the musicians he
> played with preferred to play pitched somewhat higher than 440.
>
> Can anyone tell me what this is or explain the purpose of the hourglass
> internal profile.
>
> jim lande
>
> What was I looking at?
>

Perhaps this was an Accubore Barrel. These barrels also come in
a Mennig (inverse taper), which is what you might have seen. As
far as being a "silencer", I don't know what this guy was talking about-
my experience with the accubore is a louder, if somewhat more raunchy
sound.

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